Episode 11 — Colony Collapse Disorder

Listen to this episode, and you’ll learn about honeybees, how important they are to modern agriculture, and how damaging something called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has become — at least, in the U.S. and Europe. Also, some recent developments in the study of CCD have received excited (if uneven) press coverage. I try to put the news in a bit of perspective, and talk a bit about the work that still needs to be done.

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